Can You Keep Your Brain Young?

Hi,

One of the things I am big on is keeping a balance in life.  Not only do we want a younger body, but we want to keep our brain young also. 

The other part is the spirit, or what I call the essence.  These three together make up the body, mind and spirit that almost everyone has heard of. 

These three, working together, make each and every one of us a powerful person. 

Today, let's look at the power of the brain.  This can actually be broken down into two distinct categories that most people miss.

The brain is not the mind and the mind is not the brain. 

There is a mix up here and hopefully I can clarify some of it. 

The brain is the control center of your body.  It has nutrient needs, chemical needs and hormonal needs. 

All of your actions go through the brain.  This includes movement, seeing, breathing, eating, thinking and so on and so on. 

In order to function properly, you have to take care of the brain, just like you do your body.  Exercising helps your body.  It helps your heart and circulatory system.  It pumps more blood through your body more quickly.

Which means it also pumps more blood through your brain.  This in turn gives your brain more nourishment and allows it to function properly. 

The food we eat can help the brain or hinder it. 

Food is needed by the brain to improve the brains chemistry and to support the building of transmitters and enzymes.  This allows us to have communication and feelings among other things.

These transmitters, called neurotransmitters, jump the gap between synapses.  Without getting too technical, if this doesn't happen you don't function.  You would just lie in bed all day not moving or feeling anything. 

Not a good way to be.  Now if you have read any of the past posts in this blog you have seen how good nutrition helps your body function.  Well if you go back and insert the word brain for body, the same pretty much holds true. 

So if you want to keep your brain young and healthy, then exercise and eat right.  Boy, where have we heard that before?:-)

Next post we will talk about keeping the mind young.

Thanks,

Mike Val
http://www.valshealthsite.com/